Questions tagged [pronouns]
A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun or noun phrase.
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Use of generic "one" without having to revel the gender
I want to say the following:
The more one knows about a subject, the more one realizes how little he knows about it.
I want to make it formal and general, thus my use of "one" instead of &...
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To which object in a previous sentence does "those" refer?
For example, in the sentence:
The cats rarely have fleas. Those that are there are orange.
Those is intended to refer to the fleas, but is that incorrect? Can those only refer to the cats?
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Necessity of pronoun "that" or "those" when comparing two things
We usually use "that" or "those" when we repeat the noun(s) used before especially in comparative sentences.
But what about in this sentence?
The intellectually inferior mice ...
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Should I use who or whom in this blank? [duplicate]
"I don't know _____ gave me this letter."
The word in the blank is acting as both the object of "know" and the subject of "gave," is it not?
I don't know which pronoun to ...
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What is the origin of the "one" pronoun
There are many pages of questions on the "one" pronoun, so I apologise if this has been asked before. I would like to know the origin of the "one" pronoun. Ideally as much info as ...
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What pronoun should I use, "by we who" or "by us who"? [duplicate]
He will be yelled at by we who hate him.
He will be yelled at by us who hate him.
After by you use us, but in this case I'm confused. Which one of these sentences is correct?
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Is omitting the definite article in this case grammatically correct (and preferable)?
I had written the following sentence in a manuscript:
After each transaction, the balance of the sender account equals their balance immediately before the transaction minus the amount of funds ...
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When it comes to names and pronouns, what takes precedence: past, present, or future?
This answer on Chess Stack Exchange said it’s grammatically incorrect to call someone by their current pronoun in a sentence talking about a hypothetical future scenario when their pronoun would be ...
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How does the word "it" function in: "What is it that makes us uneasy ... ?"
What is it that makes us uneasy about accepting credit for something wonderful we have done?
In this sentence, how does the word "it" function?
Is it a pronoun or a dummy subject?
Or is it ...
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What is the difference between "Us girls gotta stick together" and "We girls gotta stick together"?
I am looking into the difference between the "we" and "us" pronouns, and have found some very useful information here.
In the context of emphasizing a particular group, you can put ...
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to be fair to myself or to be fair to me? [duplicate]
To be fair to myself, he could, at times, become a bona fide drone.
To be fair to me, he could, at times, become a bona fide drone.
Is an 'I' not required before using the reflexive pronoun 'myself'?
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Why is it correct to use "me" instead of "I" in this sentence? [duplicate]
I have been blessed beyond measure in having friends far wiser and more learned than me.
My gut reaction to this sentence was that "I am" should've been used in place of "me." ...
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Direct vs indirect object pronoun forms
I understand that it would be trivial to ask whether or not English has object pronouns classifiable as either direct or indirect - this is a matter of grammatical structure.
My question is whether ...
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Which pronoun for a photo caption? [duplicate]
Which is the correct pronoun, if you have a title for a photo that is, for example “John and me, outside our house”. To my mind that is the correct way to write it but others think it should be “John ...
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Is the double pronoun "it mine" correct in "You did it your way, now let me do it mine"?
I am a non-native English speaker, so I would just like to increase my knowledge of the language.
I heard this phrase in a TV show:
You did it your way, now let me do it mine.
The let me do it mine ...
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